Jobber Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 (edited) So I was stuck deciding between getting the Quinjet City Chase and Attack on Avengers Tower, or the Imperial Assault Carrier. And then I realized that both the Quinjet and Avengers' Tower have roughly the same amount of pieces combined as the Carrier, but for 20$ more. WAT. I understand the Marvel sets have a lot of stickers and recolors and the Carrier is mostly just gray bricks--that would of course equate to a few extra dollars, but 20?! Edited June 8, 2015 by Marvel Nui Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumiki Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 It's licensing fees. Plus I'd imagine that creating and boxing two smaller sets is going to be slightly more expensive than making one big one (in terms of a bunch of small things like box designs), but yeah, I'd imagine that the bulk of that is for using Marvel's characters. 1 Quote avatar by Lady Kopaka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aanchir Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 There are lots of other factors to consider besides just licensing fees:Imperial Assault Carrier has six minifigures, only two of which (Agent Kallus and the Imperial Astromech Droid) are exclusive to that set. The two Marvel sets you named have five minifigures each, with two figures unique to each set.The Avengers Quinjet City Chase weighs 1.192kg and Attack on Avengers Tower weighs .969kg (2.161kg total) According to Tesco.com, Imperial Assault Carrier weighs just 1.857kg, meaning that the parts of that set are presumably smaller and lighter on average than the parts in the two Avengers sets.The Quinjet includes 722 pieces, including 272 distinct elements. The tower includes 511 pieces, including 193 distinct elements. The Imperial Assault Carrier includes 1216 parts but just 257 distinct elements. Needless to say, it is cheaper to include fewer distinct elements in greater quantities than to include more distinct elements in smaller quantities. And the Imperial Assault Carrier, with its very monochrome color scheme and numerous mini TIE fighters, has a lot of repetition of the same elements. Incidentally, this is a part of why larger sets can often have a lower price per piece than smaller ones. The bigger the set, the more opportunities there are to reuse the same elements. 2 Quote Latest MOC: PAIGE (Prototype Artificial Intelligence, Gynoid Expression) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hasreadit Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I'd assume licensing fees and small sets usually have less bang for the buck compared with larger sets 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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